26 things I saw while running the Philadelphia Marathon

Sunday I ran the Philadelphia marathon in 3:29:04. I will write a comprehensive recap about that soon but for now I want to share 26 things I saw while running the marathon. They are in no particular order.

1. A woman holding a sign revealing to her husband or boyfriend that she was pregnant

2. A guy wearing a drifit shirt that looked like a Christmas sweater

3. A sign that said Christmas village

4. A person in a unicorn costume

5. People giving out beer somewhere around mile 20

6. Mile markers that were inaccurately placed

7. A huge hill

8. The longest finishing chute of my life. By the time I walked to the end I could have walked back to NJ

9. The zoo

10. A sign that said, “I need to run 10 more miles but first let me take a selfie”

11. Santa

12. Lots of sparkly soul headbands

13. The turn off point for the half marathon runners

14. Gatorade

15. My teammates and friends

16. A girl wearing hot pink tights. I was jealous

17. The elites on their way to the finish while I still had miles to go

18. The 30k mark

19. Lots of things I could have tripped on but didn’t

20. Water cups all over the ground

21. A sign that said Manayunk

22. The art museum

23. The Drexel university bridge

24. The spot on Kelly drive where I died during my very first half marathon